25-26 January 1999. HEPG Eighteenth Plenary Session. Retail Competition in Theory and Practice. Session One: Is Retail Competition Working? A Report from the States. Session Two: Is Retail Competition Worth the Effort? Session Three: The Economics of Retail Competition. ... Read more about Eighteenth Plenary Session
October 12-13, 2017, HEPG Eighty-Eighth Plenary Session Session One: Pricing Carbon Emissions: The Promise and Pitfalls of Regional Approaches Session Two: Sustainable Capacity Markets: Too Much to Hope For? Session Three: Carbon Emissions: Does Federal Exit Result In Heightened Pressure on States... Read more about Eighty-Eighth Plenary Session
December 10-11, 2015, HEPG Eighty-First Plenary Session Session One: Transmission Expansion and Cost Allocation: Order 1000 Redux Session Two: Value of Solar: Shining Light on Hidden Values Session Three: Clean Power Plan: Critical State Implementation Decisions
October 13-14, 2016, HEPG Eighty-Fourth Plenary Session Session One: Transmission Rights and Revenues Redux: Follow the Money Session Two: Deciding Market Manipulation Cases: FERC Processes, Role of Judiciary, and Policy Coherence Session Three: Counting Carbon: Pricing Greenhouse Gas Pollution in... Read more about Eighty-Fourth Plenary Session
March 10-11, 2016, HEPG Eighty-Second Plenary Session Session One: Regulatory-Market Arbitrage: From Rate Base to Market and Back Again Session Two: Stakeholder Processes: “The Worst Form of Government, except for All the Others” Session Three:Uneconomic Dispatch?: Frontier Challenges in Dispatch... Read more about Eighty-Second Plenary Session
June 1-2, 2017, HEPG Eighty-Seventh Plenary Session Session One: REV and Beyond: Looking Ahead to Technology Disruption Session Two: Ancillary Service Markets: Is There a Link between Value and Price? Session Three: Re-regulation Redux? Or, Can We Sustain Competition?
March 30-31, 2017, HEPG Eighty-Sixth Plenary Session Session One: Load Serving Entities and Utility Distribution Companies: Expanding or Shrinking Role Going Forward? Session Two: Subsidies in Electricity Markets: Tilting at Windmills? Session Three: EPA Clean Power Plan Redux: What Now?
June 2-3, 2016, HEPG Eighty-Third Plenary Session Session One:Interregional Transmission Services and Operations: Beyond Order 1000 Session Two: Retail Rates: What Are We Missing by Perpetuating Tariffs without Meaningful Price Signals? Session Three:Clean Energy Revolution or Evolution: The Cost... Read more about Eighty-Third Plenary Session
Traditional wholesale electricity markets exist primarily in the Southeast, Southwest and Northwest where utilities are responsible for system operations and management, and, typically, for providing power to retail consumers.